SIC 5942 | NAICS 451211
The following guide to industry information, research, and analysis provides sources for industry trends and statistics, market research and analysis, financial ratios and salary surveys, and more.
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Comprehensive market research reports provide in-depth industry analysis and five-year forecasts, with special focus on the underlying structure and external forces and relationships that affect industries and their performance. Report contents include:
Online news channel features news and information for retail bookstores from the Publishers Weekly news magazine, with topics covered in this section including industry trends and developments, print and digital sales trends, weekly bestseller rankings, industry stock performance, and bookstore news and profiles. Selected articles from current and prior issues of the magazine are available free online.
First Research profiles cover key aspects of an industry's size, scope, and operations and include a five-year growth forecast. Profile contents include:
Bookselling This Week
https://www.bookweb.org/
Weekly e-newsletter features news and information for independent bookstores,
with news coverage including events and trends affecting the bookseller marketplace and monthly updates
on retail sales trends from the U.S. Census Bureau Retail Trade Survey. Articles from current and previous
editions of the e-newsletter can be viewed free online, with free
e-mail subscription available with registration.
Industry Statistics
https://www.bookweb.org/
Statistics section provides information on retail bookstore sales trends
from the U.S. Census Bureau and
other sources, with monthly retail sales updates from the U.S.
Census Bureau including sales of all types of participating bookstores
(e.g., trade, college, religious, chain store, other)
for which sales of new books
and periodicals comprised more than fifty percent of total product sales in these stores.
ABA Education Curriculum
https://www.bookweb.org/
Education curriculum section includes articles, guides, and other resources covering a
wide range of topics including business
management, store operations, product merchandising, genre-specific and used books, children's bookselling,
selling gifts items, sales and marketing, accounting and finances, social
media, and technology. Resources included in this section are available to
ABA members only.
Retail tracking service covers about eighty-five percent of U.S. print book sales, with transaction data collected by means of point-of-sale systems used by major book retailers, mass merchandisers, and independent bookstores. Data available to subscribers includes total sales by category, format, DMA, and publisher as well as ISBN-level data by BISAC, category, publisher, format, title, author, or ISBN.
Subscription data service tracks e-book, online print, and digital audiobook sales at the retail point of sale for all major online retailers, with sales data searchable by publisher, genre, author, title, BISAC, ISBN, and ASIN and analyzable by retail price point, publisher type, discount offered, and other user defined criteria. Contact vendor for more information and a live demonstration of the data dashboard.
Five-year financial statement analysis includes income statements, balance sheets, and key financial ratios, with data available by sales size range on a national, state, and metro area level.
Annual financial report provides participating members with a full ABACUS benchmarking report that includes comparative financial ratios, operations data, and profile information, a customized business performance report, and online reporting tools which allow users to compare their firm's performance with other similar bookstores and track their firm's performance over time against the industry results.
Annual wage survey provides hourly and annual wage data on a national, state, and local area basis for occupational categories employed by retail establishments that sell a broad range of trade books, textbooks, magazines, newspapers, religious goods (e.g., gifts, books, Bibles, wall art, statuary) and other merchandise (e.g., CDs, e-readers, greeting cards, clothing, stationery products, snack foods).
Free online service provides salary, bonus, and hourly wage data for job positions in this sector such as retail store manager, assistant store manager, cafe manager, sales associate, bookseller, barista, and cashier, with employers for which salary or hourly wage compensation data is provided including Barnes & Noble, Inc., Barnes & Noble Education, Inc., Books-A-Million, Inc., and Powell's Books, Inc.
